§ 354-a. Distribution of homework to employees by employer. The employer shall, wherever homework is permitted, distribute directly to his homeworkers all material and articles of homework. No employer shall give out any material or articles for homework through any homework contractors or distributors. No homework contractors or distributors shall receive or distribute any materials or articles for or as a result of industrial homework.

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Terms Used In N.Y. Labor Law 354-A

  • Employer: means any person who either directly or through an employee, agent, independent contractor, or any other person, delivers or causes to be delivered to another person, any materials to be manufactured in a home, and which are thereafter to be returned to him, not for the personal use of himself or of a member of his family, or to be delivered, mailed, or shipped to others. See N.Y. Labor Law 350
  • Industrial homework: means the manufacturing in a home, in whole or in part, with or of material which has been furnished by an employer, of any article or articles to be returned to the said employer, or to be delivered, mailed, or shipped to others. See N.Y. Labor Law 350

This prohibition shall be deemed absolute; anything in this article to the contrary notwithstanding, and shall not be subject to the powers of the industrial commissioner under section three hundred fifty-one.